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NEW BOOKS: "Recovering Our Historical Memory" & "Our Culture is Our Resistance"
Rights Action encourages people to buy Jonathan Moller's beautiful and moving books of photography and analysis: "Recovering Our Historical Memory" and "Our Culture is Our Resistance". In so doing, you will also be supporting grassroots groups in Guatemala fighting for truth, justice and historical memory in Guatemala.
1- "Recovering Our Historical Memory", a photography based book, is an educational publication about Guatemalan populations displaced by the internal armed conflict. This book is major visual testimony to Guatemalans working for truth, memory & justice and for reconciliation for the victims of the violence, and for the society as a whole.
Cost of Soft cover: $22. Cost of Hard cover: $35.
2- "Our Culture is Our Resistance". It is said that the bones of the dead tell no lies. In many cases, they speak on their own behalf, telling stories of pain, violence and abuse. In Guatemala, every clandestine cemetery that is found, every bone that is recovered from Mother Earth speaks of the people who were annihilated, of the homes burned, of the indiscriminate massacres. In short, they speak of the crimes against humanity, of the genocide committed by the Army against the indigenous population. Jonathan Moller's photographs speak of this. But they also show another face, the face of life, hope, redemption, and demands for change.
English or Spanish language edition: $35 + $3 shipping = $38/book.
TO ORDER BOOKS, contact: Katy Troyer (katytroyer@gmail.com ). Make checks to "Jonathan Moller" and mail to: Katy Troyer, 1560 Xenia St, Denver CO, 80220. Contact Jonathan Moller: jonas@igc.org , www.jonathanmoller.org
(Part of the profits from sales of these books will be donated to the Association for Justice and Reconciliation in Guatemala, an organization of survivors who are the primary witnesses and co-plaintiffs in the so called "genocide" cases which have been brought against former military dictators and their high commands, charging them with crimes against humanity and genocide.)
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NEW FILM: "THE BUSINESS OF GOLD in Guatemala: Tale of a Conflict Foretold"
Even as the government of Guatemala was signing the 1996 "Peace Accords", it was - unbeknownst to the Guatemala population - giving out hundreds of mining concessions to international (mainly Canadian) mining companies. Since the early 2000s, serious conflicts have broken out in Guatemala - as well as else-where in Central America - due to the environmental and health harms and other violations of human and indigenous rights being caused by mainly Canadian mining companies.
"The Business of Gold in Guatemala" (50 minutes) documents one struggle - the resistance of the Mayan-Mam people of San Miguel Ixtahuacan against the Canadian company Goldcorp Inc.
TO PURCHASE: US$20 / Cdn$22. Contact Grahame Russell, info@rightsaction.org , 1-860-352-2448.
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NEW BOOK: "CODE Z59.5: There Is Only One People Here"
By Grahame Russell (Rights Action co-director)
"With my children, Camila, aged six, and Lucas, three,
we walked through our Washington DC neighborhood.
Lucas says: "There is only one people here."
"Who is that?" I ask.
"There is Camila and me and you - one people.""
(January 3, 2000)
Code Z59.5 is a series of diary excerpts (comments, facts, quotes, etc.) from the 1990s and 2000s, related to the author's work in Central America, Mexico and North America, in defense of human rights, in promotion of a caring and just global economic development model. This is a not-for-profit, self-published book.
"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root"." (Angela Davis)
SPECIAL TRIBUTE - Oj K'aslik: To the victims-survivors of so many abuses and atrocities, who become protagonists and architects of just and balanced communities, countries and the global community. Oj K'aslik - "We are alive" in the Maya-Achi language.
TO PURCHASE: Send check or money order for US$12.50/ Cdn$15 to: Grahame Russell, Box 243, Collinsville CT, 06022, USA - along with your own mailing address. Or, contact Grahame: info@rightsaction.org , 1-860-352-2448.
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